Nursing
There are so many great organizations helping raise awareness of cervical cancer and providing direct services to cervical cancer survivors. The National Cervical Cancer Coalition was founded in 1996 and has continued to grow ever since. The Gynecologic Cancer Foundation also... Read More
I love hearing from cancer survivors. I enjoy getting to know them and listening to their unique stories. A beautiful organization and website I adore is Voices of Survivors, which explores what “survivorship” means to individual “survivors.” In honor of cervical... Read More
If MacGyver was a nurse and needed to do a cervical cancer screening in the wilderness, this is the one he would use – visual inspection with acetic acid, or VIA*. I think he was more into wires and bomb... Read More
If you have ever had sexual intercourse or plan on having sex in the future, there’s a pretty good chance you either currently have HPV, have had HPV in the past, or will have HPV in the future. According to... Read More
päp-ə-ˈnē-kə-ˌlau You may know it more fondly as Pap – like Pap test or Pap smear. Okay, so maybe “fondly” is not the first word that comes to mind when thinking about stirrups, speculums, and cervical scrapings. Unless maybe it... Read More
I never thought about it until something I helped innovate was copied. It was an odd feeling. Still is. Intrigue, anger, confusion, jealousy, smugness, concern, passion – I felt all of these. My team and I worked hard to innovate... Read More
While reading an e-newsletter about workforce issues – staffing, efficiency, team dynamics and sorts – the results of a poll caught my attention. It reported that nearly 70% of respondents would choose a different career if they had their life... Read More
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1954, Brown vs. the Board of Education desegregated public education in the United... Read More
A colleague directed me to the New Your Times Picture Your Life After Cancer site this week. I was moved reading story after story, but the thought that struck me most was there are too many pictures here. What’s even... Read More
After reading about At Your Cervix’s pet peeve, I decided to share one of my own: Don’t you miss nursing? As a nurse working outside of clinical care, I get this a lot. While I know inquisitors mean no ill,... Read More